After Chao Xiaoshu made a declaration of war to Liu Bai, he walked out of the sword pavilion alone with his sword in his arms. At this time, the disciples of the sword pavilion no longer dared to look down on this man who looked like a beggar.
The Jiange disciples lined up neatly in two rows and let Chao Xiaoshu leave.
Liu Yiqing looked ugly. He walked to Liu Bai and whispered: "Brother, if he comes out like this, the reputation of Jiange will be greatly damaged."
Liu Bai glanced at his brother coldly and asked, "Can you draw your sword at him?"
Liu Yiqing's breath was stagnant, and he lowered his head in shame and anger, and said: "I dare not lie to my brother. I fired a sword, and I don't know how I was defeated."
Liu Bai said coldly: "You can get back the face you lost by yourself. Today you can't take one of his moves. In the future, you should practice hard and practice swordsmanship, and strive to take three moves, ten moves, a hundred moves next time, or even defeat him in turn."
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Face is earned by oneself, not given by others.”
Liu Yiqing was shocked and gave Liu Bai a sword salute.
"Thank you for your advice, brother."
Liu Bai said solemnly: "Don't let anyone disturb me for these three days."
"Yes." Liu Yiqing lowered his head and agreed.
Liu Bai returned to the retreat, and the door was closed.
Liu Yiqing's face turned green and white for a while, and it took him a long time to recover.
A disciple of Jiange came over and asked: "Senior Brother Qing, are we really going to let that person go?"
Liu Yiqing said in a deep voice: "We will wait until my brother defeats him in three days."
After Chao Xiaoshu left the Jiange, he touched his pocket and found that there were still a few taels of silver, so he went to the market to buy some food, and then walked all the way outside the city until he came to a small stream.
He put down his sword and everything else, took off his dirty and damaged clothes, dove into the stream, and let his body float on the water.
Slight ripples emanated from Chao Xiaoshu, taking away the dirt all over his body. The turbid water flowed down the river and disappeared quickly.
Chao Xiaoshu lay quietly in the water, thinking about Liu Bai's river-like sword energy just now.
In the past two years, Chao Xiaoshu has been walking out of Chang'an, aimlessly and aimlessly challenging the world-famous great swordsman. Through battle after battle, his cultivation has reached the peak of knowing destiny.
Several times, Chao Xiaoshu was on the verge of death, but he managed to survive.
He obeyed Wang Gang's sword intention and was sincere to the sword and even more sincere to people. For two years, he gave up everything and just walked around the world with his sword in hand, honing his sword intention and sword heart.
Chao Xiaoshu gradually understood the way of swordsmanship, and the results of his two years of practice were greater than those of the previous twenty years. Even he himself did not expect that he could be so powerful.
His body and his sword have been honed to the extreme.
However, when he reached the peak of his destiny knowledge, Chao Xiaoshu suddenly realized that he had no opponent.
Except for Liu Bai, the best swordsman in the world, no one in the world can make him draw his sword.
So he slept in the open air and came to the sword pavilion to challenge Liu Bai. He was not only rushing along the way, but also accumulating sword power.
The moment he met Liu Bai, Chao Xiaoshu's sword intent had reached its peak, but after a brief fight, Chao Xiaoshu still found that his sword intent was one step behind Liu Bai's.
But Chao Xiaoshu was very excited and not afraid of challenging Liu Bai at all.
"How long do you want to soak?" Wang Gang's voice came from the river bank.
Chao Xiaoshu suddenly jumped out of the water and landed lightly on the shore. As soon as he shook his body, water droplets fell from his body. It was obvious that he had not only achieved great success in swordsmanship but also in martial arts in the past two years.
"Second brother, why are you here?" Chao Xiaoshu said happily.
"You don't want to reminisce with me so frankly!" Wang Gang said speechlessly.
Only then did Chao Xiaoshu realize that he had no hair on his body, and his old face couldn't help but blush.
Wang Gang casually threw a new set of clothes to Chao Xiaoshu.
"I thought you didn't care about anything except the sword now?" Wang Gang joked.
Chao Xiaoshu quickly took the clothes and put them on, then faced Wang Gang with a fresh look.
Wang just made a fire, hunted two wild animals, and chatted with Chao Xiaoshu while eating.
"You have already issued a challenge to Liu Bai, are you sure of winning?"??
"No." Chao Xiaoshu said happily, "I saw Liu Bai today and felt that his strength is far superior to mine."
"Then you are still so happy, you are really not afraid of being hacked to death by Liu Bai." Wang Gang asked back.
"Don't be afraid. As a swordsman, if you can die in the sword technique, it will be considered an honor."
"I knew you would say that." Wang Gang took out a talisman and handed it to Chao Xiaoshu.
"If there is a real crisis, you can save your life by using this talisman."
Chao Xiaoshu looked at the talisman in Wang Gang's hand and was stunned, then shook his head and said: "Don't give it to me, take it back quickly. I'm worried that if I accept this talisman, I will no longer be able to fight Liu Bai wholeheartedly."
Wang Gang frowned and said, "You're really going to die!"
He smiled at Xiaoshu and said, "If you can see the strongest sword in the world before you die, then there is nothing to fear about death."
Wang Gang shook his head and said, "Now I really regret mentioning you."
"But I want to thank my second brother, my parents for giving birth to me, and my second brother for knowing me." Chao Xiaoshu said: "Without you, I wouldn't have been able to understand the art of swordsmanship."
Wang Gang sighed and said, "I can only wish you good luck."
Chao Xiaoshu said: "I have one more thing to ask of my second brother. If I die in battle, please help me collect my body and scatter my ashes to the land of Tang Dynasty."
"Okay." Wang Gang handed the passed pheasant to Chao Xiaoshu, and then said: "Let me remind you one last thing, Liu Bai has already cultivated the sword of the world. If you want to defeat him, you must cultivate the sword of heaven!"
"What is the Sword of Heaven?" Chao Xiaoshu asked puzzledly.
"Everything in the world is in the Tao." Wang Gang picked up a stone, threw it into the stream, and said:
"Practitioners like us use the power of mind to leverage the vitality of heaven and earth. If you can leverage the power of heaven and earth with sword intention, you have become a heavenly sword."
Chao Xiaoshu frowned and said: "The power that moves the heaven and the earth, the Haotian Divine Glory of the Xiling Temple?"
Wang Gang shook his head and said: "Haotian cannot represent heaven and earth, or in other words, Haotian is only a part of heaven and earth!"
Chao Xiaoshu was still puzzled, and Wang Gang continued: "The Tao can be Tao, but it is not Tao, and the name can be named, but it is not famous."
Wang Gang stood up and said to Xiaoshu: "Brother, I have said this, please take care of yourself."
After saying that, Wang Gang brushed his face and disappeared on the spot, which was the distance between the academy and the academy.
Chao Xiaoshu held the sword in his arms and kept muttering "Heavenly Sword" in his mouth. He sat there all night long.
At sunrise, the sun rose. Looking at the rising sun toward the small tree, he gradually fell into a state of enlightenment, with a faint sword intention emerging from his body.
"Liu Bai entered the Tao with water and understood the sword intention of the river. The sword energy is like a big river, surging and surging." Chao Xiaoshu recalled Liu Bai's sword, suddenly stood up and drew his own sword.
"Everything in the world is Tao. The river is Tao, the sun is Tao, and the sky is Tao. Even an insignificant stone still contains the power of Tao."
"When a stone falls into the water, it can cause ripples. Why can't my sword intention be like a stone, when it falls into the Tao and cause ripples?"
At this moment, Chao Xiaoshu realized that he had finally mastered the art of swordsmanship and entered the path with his sword.
